SEX IN THE JERUSALEM POST

So SEX IN THE HOLY LAND was featured in the Jerusalem Post. Here is the article for you courtesy of a little function I like to call: "COPY & PASTE". Enjoy.

Showing Off Their Fringe By NATHAN BURSTEIN

More than a decade into its history, the New York Fringe Festival boasts a name that is by now an anachronism. Filling more than 75,000 seats at some 200 performances, the Fringe Festival, kicking off Friday, has become a central part of the Big Apple's summer theater season, and this year offers a varied selection of Jewish- and Israel-themed productions.

STARS AND STRIPES. 'Sex and the Holy Land' follows a trio of young Jewish Americans as they travel through Israel.Photo: Courtesy of Joshua Z Weinstein
For playwrights and also actors, the festival's name is a misnomer: involvement in a Fringe production has become a significant achievement.
That was certainly the feeling for one of the festival's younger playwrights, Melanie Zoey Weinstein, who will present her debut comedy, Sex and the Holy Land, five times at the Players Theatre, beginning August 15.

"I was screaming my head off," the 23-year-old says of the moment she learned her show had been accepted. "My doorman almost called 911."
Described by Weinstein as a coming-of-age story "largely inspired" by her own visits to Israel, Sex and the Holy Land is, as its name suggests, one of the more irreverent of the Jewish-themed plays on the schedule. Following a trio of young Jewish Americans as they travel through Israel, the show sets its tone during an early scene on a flight to Tel Aviv, when a pair of Arab and Jewish characters get into an argument in the line for the bathroom. ("I was here first," the Jewish character informs her fellow Semite.)

A sex romp that explores issues of identity, recent Jewish history and cultural differences between Israelis and Americans, the production received its initial reading last year at the University of Miami, where Weinstein submitted the script as her senior thesis in theater arts and creative writing. But the play's roots stretch back much further, Weinstein says, noting that many of its characters were drawn from study programs she completed in Israel in high school and college, and even from trips dating back earlier. "I feel like I've been writing this my whole life," she says.

Come see the show!!! Opening this Saturday!

Fringe Festival's"Sex and the Holy Land"

Preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nS2uyUWO4Q

Saturday, 8/15 at 8:15pm

Monday, 8/17 at 8:45pm

Thursday, 8/20 at 10:30pm

Monday, 8/24 at 5:15pm

Friday, 8/28 at 2:00pm

The Players Theatre

115 MacDougal Street

FringeNYC Venue #8

http://www.fringenyc.org/

TTYL,

Sivan in the Fringey City